BERINGER, Johann Batholomus Adam (ca. 1667-1738). Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae specimen primum... Wrzburg: Mark Anton Engmann for Philipp Wilhelm Fuggart, 1726. 2 o (320 x 195 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Johann Georg Puschner and 21 engraved plates (plate 21 torn, and repaired on verso, a few marginal tears). Modern wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A famous hoax, in which two of Beringer's colleagues (J. Iganz Roderick and Johann Georg von Eckhart) manufactured the fossils and planted them around Mount Eibelstadt in the neighbourhood of Wrzburg, where Beringer subsequently uncovered them. Nissen ZBI 330; Norman 195.
BERINGER, Johann Batholomus Adam (ca. 1667-1738). Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae specimen primum... Wrzburg: Mark Anton Engmann for Philipp Wilhelm Fuggart, 1726. 2 o (320 x 195 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Johann Georg Puschner and 21 engraved plates (plate 21 torn, and repaired on verso, a few marginal tears). Modern wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A famous hoax, in which two of Beringer's colleagues (J. Iganz Roderick and Johann Georg von Eckhart) manufactured the fossils and planted them around Mount Eibelstadt in the neighbourhood of Wrzburg, where Beringer subsequently uncovered them. Nissen ZBI 330; Norman 195.
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